To go outside what your charge was, and to try to solve everything yourself, is dangerous.
ZHUANGZIWe possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
More Zhuangzi Quotes
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All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.
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He who knows the activities of Nature lives according to Nature.
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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror.
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Heaven is in everything: follow the light, hide in the cloudiness and begin in what is. Do this and your understanding will be like not understanding and your wisdom will be like not being wise. By not being wise you will become wise later.
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The space under the sky is occupied by all things in their unity.
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The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
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True men” are strong willed, have dignity in their demeanor, serenity in their expression. They are cool like autumn, warm like spring. Their passions arise like the four seasons, in harmony with the ten thousand creatures, and no one knows their limits.
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There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is something. There is nothing.
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When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water – they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
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He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; He who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion.
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The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.
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